News
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Need 3 Quick Credits to Play Ball? Call Western Oklahoma
A community college, miles from an interstate, is the go-to place for athletes who need a two-week academic fix to keep their eligibility.
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China Continues to Drive International-Student Growth in the U.S.
Arrivals have declined from some of the other countries that typically send many students.
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Study Abroad, at a Standstill
It's not just the economy that's keeping American students at home.
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Heightened Scrutiny for International Students
In Britain and Australia, among other countries, anti-immigration sentiments are affecting students' decisions to enroll.
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'My Adviser Stole My Research'
Two former Ph.D. students have sued their institutions over theft of their work. How common is the problem?
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In Financial Aid, Ideals Meet a Tough Economic Reality
A financial-aid director's first year on the job proved to be a balancing act in more ways than one.
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The Promises and Perils of Synthetic Biology
The range of projects at the International Genetically Engineered Machine meeting demonstrate the excitement and the anxiety inherent in the young discipline.
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With More Overweight Students, Colleges Question How to Help
Colleges want to teach students healthful living, but how to go about it can be tricky.
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A Dot-Com Entrepreneur's Ambition: Drive Education Costs to Zero
With lots of money, a businessman offers a new virtual university that aggregates what is already online.
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A Choreographer's Newly 'Disinhibited' World
Philip Grosser, who teaches at Temple U., says that the dances he has made since surviving a severe stroke are "a little more emotionally out there."
The Chronicle Review
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In Defense of Favoritism
It's not bigotry. It's human nature.
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The Eugenic Impulse
Genetic medicine is here to stay. But its checkered past should be acknowledged, and the parameters of its future carefully considered.
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How the Humanities and Journalism Can Save Each Other
Once, they overlapped, nourished, and helped finance each other. They should again.
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Unlucky Jim: The Rise of the Adjunct Novel
Fiction about academe is starting to catch up to our era.
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M.F.A. Madness
What's more crazed than a grad student in an M.F.A. program? A couple going through two different M.F.A. programs in succession.
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Digitally Enhanced Addiction
The technological advances made by the gambling industry to keep players in the "machine zone" have dangerous implications, a new book warns.
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The Military Academies Strike Back
Some readers object to the characterization of the institutions in a recent essay, and the author, Bruce Fleming, responds.
Commentary
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Think of First-Generation Students as Pioneers, Not Problems ...
We academics who were the first in our families to go to college should stand up and make our presence known, for the sake of those in a similar position today.
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... Let's Help Them Speak Up Across the Cultural Divide
Students from underprivileged backgrounds need a different kind of attention. A professor from a nonacademic family recounts what her students taught her about how to teach...
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An Idea Too Sensible to Try, Until Now
An entrepreneur is running with the idea that a brand-new, technology-fueled, for-profit university can predefine itself as "elite."
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Focusing on Job Skills Limits Students’ Prospects
“In this case as in so many others, a relentless focus on practicality is the most impractical thing of all.”
Advice
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Language Matters
Why search committees should use the subjunctive mood in speaking with job candidates.
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The Team-Teaching Tango
Even the most confident faculty duo can stumble in the classroom in the face of student resistance.
